Execution by Cannon

VA Viper ^ | 05/12/2018 | Harpygoddess

[harpygoddess]

Execution by cannon was a method of execution in which the victim was typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.

Although it was used in several cultures historically, this method of execution is most closely associated with the colonial government of the British Raj. Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, "blowing from a gun" was a method the British used to execute rebels as well as for those natives found guilty of desertion.

The destroying of the body and scattering the remains over a wide area had a particular religious significance as a means of execution in the Indian subcontinent as it effectively prevented the necessary funeral rites of Muslims and Hindus. Thus, for believers the punishment was extended beyond death.

[Boomer]

I can think of a few people who deserve that kind of death televised around the world.

[Oatka]

Pershings use (through a subordinate who invented it) of burying Moros in the Phillipines inside pig carcasses shut down the revolt— the religious horror of both these “treatments” too much for the insurgents.

Indeed. A clip from the 1940 movie "The Real Glory", key scene at 2:20.

[Bob434]

i wonder if this is where the song ‘head and shoulders feet and toes’ came from

[IncPen]

ping. boom.

[right way right]

I saw that NK video posted here once.
At least it’s quick and I don’t think it really hurts that much.
Maybe it hurts real bad for 1/100,000 of a sec.
It’s the terror of the anticipation that has to be very harsh.
Very Evil.

[caww]

Isis fits there heads with a bomb then drops them from a few stories up....

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[T-Bone Texan]

I’m appalled by this sick tradition and cannot support it morally.

You know what is far more civilized than this brutal, sick spectacle?

One way helicopter rides.

I am a big fan of them - for commies, that is.

[T-Bone Texan]

What is that photo?

I see a sad guy tied up, no doubt a soon to be ISIS casualty.

[TheTimeOfMan]

The brits were not saints. But have you ever lived in India? I have.

The only thing that makes it even partially tolerable today is the civilizing effect of former British rule.

You can cherry pick bad behavior all you want and use it to smear British rule - leftists are aces at that. Libs also never take historical context into account but instead like to selectively apply modern mores. But the Brits did FAR more good than harm in India.

So according to you the American Indians were peaceful happy hippies at one with nature who were brutalized by vicious white men?